Vancouver park board to train staff on autism spectrum disorder
The Vancouver park board is about to begin training sessions to teach staff about autism spectrum disorder. It is the first municipal agency of Metro Vancouver to initiate[…]
UBC’s naloxone kits sit mostly unclaimed as students are reluctant to be seen as ‘high risk’ drug users
The University of British Columbia Hospital’s urgent–care centre now stocks the take-home naloxone kits being widely used in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to reverse drug overdoses. But some student leaders[…]
UBC students affected as professor’s visa-related absence disrupts the term
University of B.C. students in a Chinese politics and development course are wrapping up strange semester that included the abrupt disappearance of their teacher, the appointment of a teaching[…]
“Double culture shock” hits Chinese students who come to Vancouver young
The number of very young Chinese students arriving in B.C. is increasing and it’s creating a large new cohort of Chinese teenagers who are experiencing “double culture shock,”[…]
Underground Chinese take-out restaurants boom in Vancouver
Private unregulated Chinese “sichu” restaurants are on the rise in Metro Vancouver and authorities are at a loss as to how to manage them. Sichu is the Chinese[…]
Isolation and abuse among senior immigrants a rising concern in Metro Vancouver
Li, a senior immigrant from China, spent four months performing household duties for her landlord’s family before she finally decided to pack her bags and move into a[…]
New artworks exhibit the power of artists with intellectual disabilities
David Tribe is a man of few words but, when he does speak, he does so with a paintbrush. Tribe and nine other artists with intellectual disabilities are[…]
Mandarin tutoring services boom for UBC Chinese students
It’s always busy in advance of exam season at the University of British Columbia. But for senior statistics student Tomas Zhang, it’s even busier. That’s because Zhang has[…]
Members of the newborn UBC Free Speech Club battle “political correctness” on campus
A group of University of B.C. students claiming that political correctness has gone too far has formed a free-speech club in the wake of the U.S. election of[…]
Whale death on B.C. coast sparks debate as vote moves to House of Commons
VANCOUVER – Debate has bubbled up over fish farms in B.C. after a dead humpback whale was found last week at an abandoned site. The discovery of the[…]
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